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Winner crowned on 'Big Brother Canada'

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Thursday, May 18, 2017
9:35:47 EDT PM

Kevin Martin, left, takes the Big Brother Canada Season 5 crown as host Arisa Cox looks on in this undated handout photo. Kevin Martin of Calgary won the fifth season of "Big Brother Canada" in Thursday night's finale on Global. The professional poker player took the $100,000 grand prize along with a $30,000 gift card from The Brick and a new 2017 Toyota '86. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Global TV)

TORONTO — Kevin Martin of Calgary won the fifth season of “Big Brother Canada” in Thursday night’s finale on Global.

The professional poker player took the $100,000 grand prize along with a $30,000 gift card from The Brick and a new 2017 Toyota ’86.

Karen Singbeil of Victoria was the runner-up in the reality competition series, in which contestants live together and compete in challenges in a house outfitted with cameras and microphones to capture their every move.

“I came here with one goal and one goal only: to make it to the end,” Martin said in a statement.

“I haven’t had a single ally in the house for the whole second half of the game, so every morning I would wake up and do nothing but strategize and study.”